16 worst political dirty tricks

Reports emerged during Tuesday’s recall election that Wisconsin voters were receiving robocalls telling them that if they had already signed a petition to recall Gov. Scott Walker, they did not need to get out and vote. Such shenanigans are nothing new in American campaigns. Here are some of the dirtiest dirty tricks (and if you know of others, shoot us a note at WBergstrom(at)politico.com).
By William Bergstrom and Alysha Love

LBJ steals nomination

In his first election to the Senate, Lyndon Baines Johnson overcame a 20,000-vote deficit in a primary runoff election thanks to votes that, as biographer Robert A. Caro and others have argued, were manufactured. Most famously, 202 Mexican-American voters, some already deceased, cast ballots in alphabetical order at the last minute on election day in Jim Wells County.